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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In teratology, an amorphous acardiac monster connected with the jaw of the twin fetus.

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  • Figure 58 represents an epignathus, a peculiar type parasitic monster, in which the parasite is united to the inferior maxillary bone of the autosite.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Figure 58 represents an epignathus, a peculiar type parasitic monster, in which the parasite is united to the inferior maxillary bone of the autosite.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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